The iPad-prompted Amazon/publisher fallout continues, with John Sargent – CEO of Macmillan, whose books and ebooks promptly disappeared from Amazon’s store in the aftermath of the Apple tablet announcement – confirming that the online retailer modified their catalog in response to a demand to renegotiate pricing structures. In a post on the PublishersMarket blog (and a paid advert that ran this weekend in the print magazine), Sargent explains that he put his new pricing structure – which would see ebooks sold with flexible pricing, and retailers taking a set 30-percent commission – to Amazon the day after the iPad’s launch, only to find that in apparent retaliation they swiftly pulled all print and electronic copies from the store before the CEO even had time to get back to his New York office.

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